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The SEP is calling on all those who are concerned to defend democratic rights of freedom of expression to register their opposition by sending protest letters to the relevant authorities.

We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Nancy Hanover, a writer and editor for the <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> and a member of the Trotskyist movement in the US for more than four decades.

Since the inquiry was announced seven years ago, the Socialist Equality Party has warned it was nothing more than a cover-up orchestrated to deflect blame from those responsible for 72 preventable deaths.

The decision to send riot cops to UCSC is meant to send a deliberate message to academic workers that neither the campus administration nor the White House and the two pro-war parties will yield in the slightest to popular pressure.

Much will transpire over the five months remaining until the November election. It is possible that neither Trump nor Biden will end up as the candidates of the two corporate-controlled parties. But one thing is certain, the political system as a whole will continue its lurch to the right.

We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Jerry White, the labor editor of the <em>World Socialist Web Site</em> and a leading member of the Trotskyist movement in the US and internationally for more than four decades.

We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Laura Tiernan, a member of the National Committee of the Socialist Equality Party in Britain and writer for the <em>World Socialist Web Site</em>.

Workers’ action committees in Sri Lanka have sent protest letters condemning the violent attack by Podujana Pragathishili Sevaka Sangamaya trade union officials on two Socialist Equality Party members.

Britain’s Stop the War Coalition and its political leader Jeremy Corbyn have sought to limit all protests to placing pressure on the Conservative government, and its de facto allies in the Labour Party, to shift from their naked support for Israel and instead demand a ceasefire.

We are publishing here the tribute to Helen Halyard written by Julie Hyland, a member of the International Editorial Board of the <em>World Socialist Web Site </em>and for many years the assistant national secretary of the Socialist Equality Party (UK).